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Fast Company June 2015 Baratunde Thurston	A Radical Proposal For Putting People In Charge Of Their Data Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye's research has shown that 95% of individuals can be reliably identified with as few as four data points. de Montjoye and his peers have a solution: Let's shift the balance of power and risk in how user data is handled.
Fast Company David Lumb	Why Scientists Are Upset About The Facebook Filter Bubble Study Yesterday, the journal Science released a study by Facebook employees examining what content you do (and don't) see on Facebook's news feed.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today.
Fast Company David Lumb	Read The Fine Print Before You Use Microsoft's Viral Age-Guessing Tool Before you submit your own photo, check the fine print: Your face could end up in a future Microsoft advertisement.
Fast Company Noah Robischon	BuzzFeed Unveils Pound To Show How You Really Share Content Even the best analytics providers out there do a poor job of tracking how that cat GIF gets passed across the social web.
Fast Company David Lumb	A Counterintuitive Way To Beat Online Procrastination Rather than trying to avoid distractions completely, commit to a reasonable time limit of web browsing, and then allow yourself to surf guilt-free during that time.
Fast Company David Lumb	Google Removes Image Of Android Robot Peeing On Apple Logo From Google Maps It was a gag someone pulled by using Google's Map Maker, a tool that enables the community to edit maps.
Fast Company David Lumb	Want To See A Sliver Of What Google Knows About You? There are many things Google can do with your search history, from personalizing advertisements to combining many search histories to find patterns.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	WikiLeaks Launches Giant Searchable Database Of Leaked Sony Emails Thanks to WikiLeaks, you can now search a massive database of hacked information for dirt on your favorite Sony-affiliated celebrities and entertainment-industry folk.
Fast Company David Lumb	In-Air Wi-Fi Apparently Makes Planes Hackable A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office for the Federal Aviation Administration describes the fearsome scenario of a hacker breaking into a plane's avionics through in-flight Wi-Fi.
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